Specialized in the work of Prouvé, the Galerie Patrick Seguin, conscientious of the need to publish a work of reference for the public at large, is co-publishing with the Sonnabend Gallery this important monograph focusing on Prouvé furniture.The work with 615 full color pages is quadri-partite: the first section, prefaced by Patrick Seguin and under the aegis of the art historian and journalist, Françoise-Claire Prodhon, is a collection of interviews with collectors and enthusiasts of Jean Prouvé, who expose their relationship with and point of view on Jean Prouvé's.The interviewed include the architects Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, Renzo Piano, the designer Marc Newson, the couturiers Azzedine Alaïa, Marc Jacob... to name but a few.The second section of the book focuses on the various exhibitions of Jean Prouvé's work organized by the Galerie Patrick Seguin in France and abroad.This section opens with images of the exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York, and continues with images of the exhibitions at the Architecture Biennele in Venice, at the Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles, at 10 Corso Como Commedes Garçons in Tokyo. This section is concluded by an essay detailing the omnipresence of Jean Prouvé works among the most important international art collections.The third section is devoted to a detailed biographie of Jean Prouvé by one of his daughters, Catherine Drouin-Prouvé.The final section, introduced by the historian of design Raymond Guidot, is a catalogue of Jean Prouvé's furniture, anthologized by Catherine Coley, both art and architectural historian and scientific director of this book.The distinct nomenclature employed specifies the date, the original title, the characteristique technique, and the provenance of each piece as a way of analyzing the different typologies of Jean Prouvé's furniture.This work is abundantly illustrated with blueprints, sketches, vintage photographs... and other archival documents of the Prouvé family, the Centre Pompidou library and from private repositories.

Contents:

Vol. 1 :

Interwiews

Jean Prouvé Sonnabend Gallery New-York 2003

Exhibitions Jean Prouvé

Private collections

Vol. 2 :

Introduction

Jean Prouvé FURNITURE:

Chairs

Armchairs

Office chairs

Stools and benches

Desks

Beds

Lights

Scholastic furniture

Interior furnishings and storage

Documents

Architecture

Biography, chronological hight lights

The texts by Catherine Prouvé and Catherine Coley are written in English and in French.